Sheet Music for 2 Flutes & Piano, Concerto en Re Mineur [Concerto in D minor].

October 23, 2018 Mozart, Divertimento At the end of 1771, following two successful tours in Italy, Mozart and his father returned home to Salzburg. There, around the time of his sixteenth birthday, Wolfgang composed three divertimenti, K. 136-138, for strings. These pieces are generally counted as his first string quartets, but it has often been remarked that the writing is unlike that in his other quartets, including even the ones that he wrote later that same year. Here the writing is more orchestral and the inner voices have less individual character than in most of Mozart’s chamber music. He may well have considered this music useful for either orchestral or chamber music performance, and indeed it is often played by string orchestras, as we are doing today. Mozart scholar Alfred Einstein speculated that Mozart may even have composed these divertimenti to be ready should he be asked for symphonies during his next Italian tour, in which case he could simply have added wind parts.

Today we perform the third of these three divertimenti. It is delightfully simple, youthful music, with a lyrical slow movement and a humorous Haydnesque finale. Mozart, Clarinet Concerto In 1984, Boston Baroque (then called Banchetto Musicale) gave the first American performance on period instruments of this concerto.

Now, many years later, we are pleased to return to this masterwork. The Clarinet Concerto was Mozart’s last completed instrumental work, and it has long been esteemed for the profound mastery and emotional depth that one finds in the composer’s late works. The orchestration is subtle and beautiful, with the gentle sound of flutes instead of oboes in the winds. Although the solo part requires a virtuosic player and uses the entire range of the instrument, it has none of the technical fireworks of Weber’s clarinet music. Nor is there a showy solo cadenza.

Rather, this is a sublimely expressive work throughout, with an achingly beautiful, serene second movement Adagio. Autocom 2013 r1 keygen for mac. The finale is a rondo in a lighter spirit, but it too has a poignancy underneath its dance rhythms.

The musicologist H. Robbins Landon described this unique and deeply moving concerto by paraphrasing Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale: “The heart dances, but not for joy.” The only score for this concerto that has come down to us in Mozart’s hand is incomplete.

It gives us just the first half of the first movement. That score from 1788 is in G major, a step lower than the piece we know today, and it appears to be for a different kind of solo instrument, perhaps a basset horn (a low instrument in the clarinet family that transposes down a fifth). But around that time, the clarinet virtuoso Anton Stadler introduced a new instrument to Viennese audiences, a basset clarinet, essentially a true clarinet with a longer tube that allowed it to go down four semi-tones beyond the bottom note of the clarinet. It was for Stadler and this new instrument that Mozart wrote his Clarinet Quintet, K. 581 and the solo clarinet part in his opera La clemenza di Tito.